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A Time to Kill
Tonya, a 10 years old girl, who has been brutally raped by two young white men, the thing that makes her father's rage and leads him to murder them. So, in order to prove his innocence, he receives help from a successful white lawyer Jake, who does his best to prove his innocence, disregarding everyone.
May1962, Southern Maine, USA
3 February 1947, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA
8 August 1982, Port Gibson, Mississippi, USA
30 January 1951, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
June 23, 2004
McConaughey nails with such laconic grace that some critics are comparing him to the young Paul Newman and to Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird.
June 06, 2001
McConaughey, 26, is dynamite in a performance of smarts, sexiness, scrappy humor and unmistakable star sizzle.
May 20, 2003
If the film doesn't add up to a cogent legal argument, neither does it have trouble delivering 2 hours and 20 minutes' worth of sturdy, highly charged drama.
July 04, 2004
Looks aren't enough. In the lead, McConaughey isn't there.
April 01, 2009
Only a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman could make things worse--and lo and behold, speak of the devil and Old Scratch appears.
June 14, 2009
A gritty, intense and engaging courtroom drama.
October 08, 2008
Although it has its share of implausibilities, A Time To Kill is generally the most satisfying of the John Grisham screen adaptations to date.
August 13, 2006
With Joel Schumacher's tasteful but second-rate-Sidney-Lumet direction and Akiva Goldsman's nuts-and-bolts script, these boys have created a surprisingly stirring indictment of racism.
February 09, 2006
Justice may be blind, but rarely have courtroom dramas presumed quite so heavily on cultural myopia as this heinous version of John Grisham's first novel.
June 18, 2002
Untrained as an actor, with only three minor roles to his credit, McConaughey holds the screen against Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock and Kevin Spacey, and completely justifies the buzz surrounding his role...
June 14, 2009
A likable -- maybe even lovable -- movie.
June 14, 2009
What craven offal!